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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France!
Rock the vote
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Examine your systemic racism
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
